CNU-CTX 2024 Luncheon - Charting a Course to Connected Communities: A Roadmap for an Inclusive Austin
Apr
17
11:30 AM11:30

CNU-CTX 2024 Luncheon - Charting a Course to Connected Communities: A Roadmap for an Inclusive Austin

Join The Congress for the New Urbanism - Central Texas Chapter as we proudly welcome Veronica O. Davis, renowned expert and author of Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities, as our Annual Luncheon Speaker. In her groundbreaking book, Veronica exposes the inequities inherent in traditional transportation planning and presents an inspiring vision for a transformative shift. While Austin has made great strides in recent years, there is still much work to be done and great opportunities to make a better city through better transportation planning.

Charting a Course to Connected Communities: A Roadmap for an Inclusive Austin will immerse attendees in Veronica’s perspective on recentering transportation decisions in people. Attendees will learn how her proposed changes in training, community engagement, data collection, and professional collaboration can pave the way for a safer, better, and more inclusive transportation system.

Veronica's work serves as a compelling call to action, urging transit planners and engineers to actively contribute to shaping communities based on principles of justice and equity. Don't miss this opportunity to engage with a thought leader promoting important changes in transportation planning.

Veronica O. Davis has nearly 20 years of experience in engineering and transportation planning. She is an Entrepreneur and Civil Engineer, co-founding Nspiregreen, LLC., which manages Community, Multimodal Transportation, and Environmental planning and consulting. While at Nspiregreen, she led the Vision Zero Action Plans for Washington, DC and the City of Alexandria. She co-founded Black Women Bike, an organization and movement which builds a community and interest in biking among black women through education, advocacy and recreation. Veronica serves on the committees for Transportation Research Board, the board for America Walks, as well as technical advisory boards at the University of Maryland and Cornell University. She was recognized as a Champion of Change by the White House in 2012 for her professional accomplishments and advocacy.


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URBAN DESIGN FILM NIGHT: Promoting a Human-Centered Public Realm
Feb
28
5:00 PM17:00

URBAN DESIGN FILM NIGHT: Promoting a Human-Centered Public Realm

Please join CNU-CTX and AIA Austin Urban Design Committee for screening of short films looking at promoting human centric public spaces.

5 - 6:00 pm Happy Hour with Open Bar
6 - 7:30 pm Film Screening

Tickets available now: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/5da678a?mode=preview&source_id=bf6d9f3a-af5e-498b-9325-f39d21115e20&source_type=em&c=&mode=preview&source_id=b121ebd8-e0ec-4f26-9267-086c3b42a924&source_type=em&c

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CNU-CTX Luncheon with
Jan
13
11:30 AM11:30

CNU-CTX Luncheon with

Join us as we host Dr. Andre M. Perry as our Annual Luncheon keynote speaker. Austin is making major investments in a high capacity transit system, and is exploring ways through equitable Transit Oriented Developments (eTODs) and other land use reforms to make these investments without exacerbating the displacement of vulnerable populations. Dr. Perry will discuss how structural racism comprised in our city’s land use, infrastructure, and economic development policies have systematically devalued Black people, their assets, and neighborhoods, and how current and future developments can divest from the practices of the past while restoring value that’s been extracted by racism.

Andre M. Perry is a Senior Fellow at Brookings Metro, a scholar-in-residence at American University, and a professor of practice of economics at Washington University. A nationally known and respected commentator on race, structural inequality, and education, Perry is the author of the book “Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities.” Perry is a regular contributor to MSNBC and has been published by numerous national media outlets, including The New York Times, The Nation, The Washington Post, TheRoot.com and CNN.com. Perry has also made appearances on HBO, CNN, PBS, National Public Radio, NBC, and ABC. Perry’s research focuses on race and structural inequality, education, and economic inclusion. Perry’s recent scholarship at Brookings has analyzed Black-majority cities and institutions in America, focusing on valuable assets worthy of increased investment.

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Over Parked and Under Performing:  Why Cities are Reconsidering the Rules that Govern Parking
Dec
8
12:00 PM12:00

Over Parked and Under Performing: Why Cities are Reconsidering the Rules that Govern Parking

Seemingly mundane parking regulations have profound and harmful impacts on city life.

The regulations that create an overabundance of free parking comes at a price of fostering lifeless streets, incentivizing car travel, exacerbating climate change, and contributing to the ever growing un-affordability challenges of our city. At the same time, finding an on-street parking spot in our densest and most active districts can be impossible. Failure to adequately manage demand for curb parking in our highest-visited areas creates congestion, frustration, and the perception of inadequate parking.

CNU-CTX is pleased to host Donald Shoup, UCLA Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Urban Planning.

Professor Shoup’s keynote will discuss how parking policies affect cities, the economy, and the environment; and provide his three-part prescription for how cities can improve their streets and places, protect the environment, and promote social justice.

Two other panels on parking reform will complete the program.

Join us for a look at cities around the country that have changed the rules that govern parking using the Shoup approach, and a local exploration into what parking reforms could do for Austin—and the way to get there.

Donald Shoup is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research has focused on transportation, public finance, and land economics, with emphasis on how parking policies affect cities, the economy, and the environment. In his landmark 2005 book, The High Cost of Free Parking, Shoup recommended that cities should (1) charge fair market prices for on-street parking, (2) spend the revenue to improve public services in the metered neighborhoods, and (3) remove off-street parking requirements. In his 2018 book, Parking and the City, Shoup and his co-authors examined the results where cities have adopted these policies. The successful outcomes show this trio of reforms may be the simplest, cheapest, and fastest way to improve cities, protect the environment, and promote social justice.

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Janes Walk - The Road to Repair
May
7
to May 8

Janes Walk - The Road to Repair

  • 2nd and Lavaca Street Austin, Texas 78723 (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Join CNU-CTX for a series of Jane's Walks, a free community conversation on foot, to explore the ugly present and hopeful future of I-35. Jane Jacobs dismissed Le Corbusier's Radiant City freeways as "embroidery...in quantities that apparently satisfied his sense of design." The DAA-sponsored ULI Panel called for a 'Cap and Stitch' approach to mend the urban fabric from the tear that is I-35.

One might more graphically think of it as a gaping wound that needs to be sutured before the east-west divide of Austin can begin the healing process. Our community seems to be rejecting TxDOT's call for ever-increasing traffic through the heart of Austin, and is instead focused on repairing the damage done by the original construction of I-35.

Due to COVID-19 restrictions and a less than ideal pedestrian environment, we will be limiting the number of people who can participate in person, but will also be offering a live virtual walk via Zoom that will be recorded for future reference. Limited Tickets will be made available for two Jane's Walks of the same route. Unlimited availability will be made for those who would like to participate via Zoom.

In-person Jane's Walks will take place on the Evening of Friday, May 7th, and the morning of Saturday, May 8th. We ask people to meet at the Willie Nelson Statute at 2nd and Lavaca.

May 7th we ask people to gather at 5:30 pm. The Jane's Walk will depart sharply at 6:00 pm.

May 8th we ask people to gather at 8:30 am. The Jane's Walk will depart sharply at 9:00 am.

Tickets for either of the in-person walks and the zoom walk are available now - click here!

We anticipate the walks to last approximately 2 to 2.5 hours.
We ask that persons walking with us use a mask for the duration of the walk. 

Zoom links will be sent to everyone who gets a ticket that cannot participate in person.  


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CNU-CTX 2020 Forum - Reimagining Community: A Catalyst for Change in Central Texas
Dec
2
9:00 AM09:00

CNU-CTX 2020 Forum - Reimagining Community: A Catalyst for Change in Central Texas

Join CNU-CTX for a dynamic day of concepts and conversations at our inaugural Reimagining Community forum.

We’re pleased to present a full day of online speakers, panels, and connections. With four panels discussing topics like affordable housing, transit and infrastructure, to healthy communities and equitable cities—and featuring a must-see keynote session by Jan Gehl—this virtual gathering will be an interactive forum to discuss the critical issues that are driving our society today.




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2019 CNU-CTX Annual Luncheon
Dec
11
11:30 AM11:30

2019 CNU-CTX Annual Luncheon

“Nobody should have to move out of their neighborhood to live in a better one.”

- Majora Carter


Austin’s success and growth has benefited some while leaving others behind. Formerly neglected neighborhoods are revitalizing bringing new energy and opportunities, but all too often existing residents find themselves priced out of these now increasingly desirable neighborhoods and leaving our city.

Successful companies prioritize talent-retention in order to thrive. How can communities benefit from a similar mindset, and how does this paradigm differ from conventional wisdom today? CNU-CTX is pleased to bring in Majora Carter to talk about this critical issue for our 2019 Annual Luncheon.

Majora Carter is an American urban revitalization strategist and broadcast producer/host from the South Bronx in New York. Her career has spanned environment, economy, social mobility, and real estate development, and her work has won major awards in each sector including a MacArthur 'genius' Grant, a Peabody Award, the Rudy Bruner Award Silver Medal, nine honorary doctorates, and accolades from various professional groups.

Carter combines her corporate consulting insights to reducing Brain Drain in American low-status communities. Her firsthand experience pioneering sustainable economic development in the South Bronx, has enabled her to harness capital flows resulting from re-urbanization across age, race, and income levels, to help increase wealth building opportunities across demographics left out of this historic financial tide change. Her work produces long term fiscal benefits for government and leading private real estate developments through innovative economic diversity structures.

Her ability to shepherd teams through difficult socio-economic conflict has garnered a very long list of awards and honorary PhD's, including: 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs, Silicon Alley 100 by Business Insider, Liberty Medal for Lifetime Achievement by News Corp, and other honors from the National Building Museum, International Interior Design Association, Center for American Progress, as well as her TEDtalk which was one of six to launch that site in 2006.

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Neighborhoods of Neighbors: How Putting the Neighbor Back in the Neighborhood Can Unlock some of Austin's Most Vexing Problems
Dec
5
11:30 AM11:30

Neighborhoods of Neighbors: How Putting the Neighbor Back in the Neighborhood Can Unlock some of Austin's Most Vexing Problems

Austin is a magnetic city with a unique culture and quality of life under threat. Adding population faster than the City can plan for its future, Austin is becoming ever more congested, unaffordable, and segregated. Recent planning efforts to address these problems have foundered on a suspicious community lacking trust. 

But what can be done? 

Doug Farr, author of Sustainable Nation: Urban Design Patterns for the Future, believes that neighborhoods are the messy yet sustainable structure to cities, and will discuss how empathetic planning that invites the whole of the community into the discussion, and requires considering the perspective of others, is the key to inspiring trust and unlocking sustainable solutions to the problems of growth.

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2018 ATX Screening of the New Urbanism Film Festival
Aug
21
7:00 PM19:00

2018 ATX Screening of the New Urbanism Film Festival

Please join CNU-CTX for our fourth annual screening of selected films from the New Urbanism Film Festival (NUFF). 

The NUFF features a series of sometimes funny, sometimes moving, and always thought provoking short films about urban design, transportation, affordability, and pressures brought by rapid change in cities and neighborhoods.



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CNU-CTX Annual Membership Meeting
Apr
12
5:30 PM17:30

CNU-CTX Annual Membership Meeting

Calling all members of CNU (and all interested). On Friday, April 12th we will be holding our Annual Membership Meeting. All are welcome to attend. Members will elect the nominated slate for the Board of Directors.  

After company business we are thrilled to host our featured speaker Alan Graham of Mobile Loaves & Fishes and Community First Village to talk about Building a Community First!  

Alan is the founder and CEO of Mobile Loaves & Fishes. MLF is a social outreach ministry committed to providing permanent, sustainable solutions for the chronically homeless while surrounding them with compassion, love and dignity. Those who know Alan best know that he is a man on a mission — to relieve the struggles homeless individuals face in obtaining their basic needs of food, community and a place to call home. 

Since its founding in 1998, Mobile Loaves & Fishes volunteers have served more than 5 million meals with a side of hope to homeless men and women living on the streets of Austin. Graham is also the visionary behind MLF’s Community First! Village — a 27-acre master planned development that provides affordable, permanent housing and a supporting community to the chronically homeless in Central Texas. 

We could not be more excited to host Alan for a talk about the love and urban design that built a community to serve the chronically homeless at the Community First! Village just outside Austin. Hope to see everyone there.

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CNU-CTX Annual Luncheon with Carol Coletta - Making Place Matter: Inclusion • Empowerment • Opportunity
Nov
29
11:30 AM11:30

CNU-CTX Annual Luncheon with Carol Coletta - Making Place Matter: Inclusion • Empowerment • Opportunity

How do we protect the integrity of Central Texas’ places and neighborhoods while still creating new civic assets that increase opportunity?

Join us for this year’s CNU-CTX annual luncheon where we’ll hear insight on tackling this fundamental challenge from one of the nation’s leading experts on the connections between cities, place and opportunity.

Carol Coletta is a senior fellow with The Kresge Foundation’s American Cities Practice. She is leading a proposed $40 million collaboration of foundations, nonprofits and governments to demonstrate the ways in which a connected set of civic assets – a civic commons – can yield increased and more widely shared prosperity for cities and neighborhoods. She formerly was vice president of Community and National Initiatives for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. She led the two-year start-up of ArtPlace, a public-private collaboration to accelerate creative placemaking in communities across the U.S. and was president and CEO of CEOs for Cities for seven years. She also served as executive director of the Mayors’ Institute on City Design, a partnership of the National Endowment for the Arts, U.S. Conference of Mayors and American Architectural Foundation. For nine years, she was host and producer of the nationally syndicated weekly public radio show Smart City, where she interviewed more than 900 international leaders in business, the arts and cities.

Sponsorships Available Now

Presenting Sponsor/$5,000

  • Sponsorship of VIP reception (up to 8 guests at reception and opportunity to address reception attendees)
  • Luncheon table for 8 in premier location
  • Signage and verbal recognition at event
  • Lead in all marketing materials and event program

Leading Sponsor/$2,500

  • Invitation to VIP reception (up to 4 guests)
  • Luncheon table for 8 in prime location
  • Signage and verbal recognition at event
  • Prominently featured in marketing materials and event program

Table Sponsor/$1,250

  • Luncheon table for 8
  • Signage and recognition at event
  • Recognition in marketing materials and program

Friend/$650

  • Four tickets (1/2 table) for the event
  • Mention in event materials

Individual Tickets Available starting at $55.00

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CNU-CTX EcoDistrict Walking Tour
Oct
21
9:00 AM09:00

CNU-CTX EcoDistrict Walking Tour

Join CNU Central Texas for a walking tour of the Seaholm EcoDistrict led by veteran Seaholm District project manager and CNU-CTX board member Greg Kiloh.

Over the last two decades, the Seaholm EcoDistrict has transformed from a blighted industrial brownfield into one of the greenest, most innovative and dense mixed-use urban neighborhoods in the city. As the major construction of public infrastructure nears completion, the district’s personality as a tech industry and culinary hot-spot is emerging.

The tour will include a sneak-peek preview of the New Central Library led by the highly entertaining veteran Library Facilities Process Manager, John Gillum. After the Grand Opening on October 28th, the ‘library of the future’ will become our current favorite place to seek knowledge, technology and inspiration.

Meet on the north end of the Pfluger Pedestrian Bridge at 9:00. The tour will begin promptly at 9:30. The tour will conclude with an optional group lunch at one of the local eateries.

9:00 – 1:00 Saturday October 21, 2017

Consider Bcycle, Cap Metro Routes 3, 338, 803.

Paid public parking is available at Seaholm and City Hall.

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Congress Avenue Jane's Walk
Jun
3
11:00 AM11:00

Congress Avenue Jane's Walk

Join CNU-CTX on Saturday, June 3rd for our annual Jane’s Walk.  This year, in conjunction with Our Congress Avenue: Transform! urban design initiative, we will be exploring the Main Street of Texas through the lens of the life and work of Jane Jacobs.

Jane's Walks are free organized walking tours, in which people get together to explore, talk and envision their city neighborhoods.

Jane Jacobs' urbanism and activism championed a fresh, community-based approached to city building. Her seminal work, and indictment of urban planning in the middle of the 20th century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities remains one of the most influential books ever to be written about the importance of cities and the failures of modern urban planning to recognize their essential economic functions.

We're looking forward to exploring the successes, shortcomings and opportunities that are presented by Congress Avenue and consider how Jane Jacobs’ ideas might help shape the next chapter in the most important street in the state.

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CNU 25.Seattle
May
3
to May 6

CNU 25.Seattle

A rapidly expanding transit network runs through green, dense neighborhoods full of historic homes and local businesses. A thriving startup economy sparks innovation in tech and civic spaces. Surrounding it all, Puget Sound and the Cascade and Olympic Mountain Ranges provide a constant bridge to the natural world. Seattle and the Pacific Northwest are creating the next frontier of urbanist innovation. But as the pace of change quickens, the region is struggling to maintain its affordability, character, and pioneer spirit.

At our 25th annual Congress, CNU will celebrate the last quarter-century of New Urbanist accomplishments and pivotal moments—while looking forward to the future of building sustainable, equitable, livable places.

REGISTER

Don’t miss this opportunity to help chart the course of New Urbanism for the next 25 years.

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CNU-CTX Annual Meeting
Apr
27
5:30 PM17:30

CNU-CTX Annual Meeting

Join us to learn about all the exciting things accomplished and going on and being planned by our CNU Central Texas Chapter. Find out where you can plug in and get more involved in the work of our committees.

At our annual meeting, CNU-CTX members will elect new Chapter Directors.  The 2017 slate of nominees are as follows:

  • Erika Ragsdale, CNU-CTX Director, CNU-Accredited Planning Coordinator for the City of San Antonio with experience in the public and private sectors. (renewing for a 3 year term)
  • Gabriel Diaz Montemayor, CNU-CTX Director, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. (renewing for a 3 year term)
  • Sarah Esserlieu, CNU-CTX Interim Director, Senior Management Analyst, City of San Antonio.
  • Ben Holland, CNU-CTX Interim Director, Senior Associate at Rocky Mountain Institute, where he manages the Mobility Oriented Development initiative. His focus is on land use and mobility as as service. Ben holds a M.S. in business analytics from University of Colorado.
  • Chris Riley, former City of Austin Councilmember, and recent graduate of the Pratt Instituted with a masters in Urban Placemaking and Management.
  • Meredith Powell, Founder/Owner of Public City, Vice Chair of Evolve Austin Board of Directors, on the Board of Directors of the Austin Community Design and Development Cente, and serves on the curatorial board for Pecha Kucha Night Austin.
  • Keri Burchard-Juarez, Municipal Transportation Leader with Garver, licensed professional civil engineer and certified project management professional with 17 years of experience in the design and construction of public infrastructure.
  • Dean Almy, Associate Professor of Architecture, Feelow of the Forum for Urban Design, and Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design and The Texas Urban Futures Laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin.  

To vote you must be a member in good standing.  Join CNU or renew your membership online here in advance. National CNU membership is free for students, $40 for advocates, $125 for nonprofit/government, $195 for full Urbanist membership.

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Encore Cafe Urban: 101 Semesters Beyond the Studio: Lecture by Sinclair Black
Apr
24
5:00 PM17:00

Encore Cafe Urban: 101 Semesters Beyond the Studio: Lecture by Sinclair Black

CNU-CTX is pleased to join Reconnect Austin and Project Great Steets a for a Cafe Urban featuring Sinclair Black, Congress for the New Urbanism 2008 Athena Medal recipient and Director Emeritus of CNU-CTX, for a celebration of 50+ years of teaching and practice.

101 Semesters Beyond the Studio is a month-long exhibition hosted by the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture which recounts a myriad of explorations: from creating beautiful designs to campaigning to bury the highway; traveling around the globe to making special places; honoring Texas heritage to revitalizing downtown Austin; serving the public good to inspiring future citizen architects.

Hear Sinclair’s stories about these explorations in a private lecture specifically for CNU members. In his own words: a snapshot of a lifetime of work with more to come!

There are two opportunities to hear Sinclair talk about his work and tour the exhibit. Both events start in the lecture room at Goldsmith Hall (399 W 22nd St. Austin, TX 78705) and conclude in the Mebane Gallery to see the exhibit.

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Cafe Urban: 101 Semesters Beyond the Studio: Lecture by Sinclair Black
Apr
22
10:00 AM10:00

Cafe Urban: 101 Semesters Beyond the Studio: Lecture by Sinclair Black

CNU-CTX is pleased to join Reconnect Austin and Project Great Steets a for a Cafe Urban featuring Sinclair Black, Congress for the New Urbanism 2008 Athena Medal recipient and Director Emeritus of CNU-CTX, for a celebration of 50+ years of teaching and practice.

101 Semesters Beyond the Studio is a month-long exhibition hosted by the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture which recounts a myriad of explorations: from creating beautiful designs to campaigning to bury the highway; traveling around the globe to making special places; honoring Texas heritage to revitalizing downtown Austin; serving the public good to inspiring future citizen architects.

Hear Sinclair’s stories about these explorations in a private lecture specifically for CNU members. In his own words: a snapshot of a lifetime of work with more to come!

There are two opportunities to hear Sinclair talk about his work and tour the exhibit. Both events start in the lecture room at Goldsmith Hall (399 W 22nd St. Austin, TX 78705) and conclude in the Mebane Gallery to see the exhibit.

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CNU-CTX (ATX) - Code Talk
Feb
27
5:30 PM17:30

CNU-CTX (ATX) - Code Talk

The long anticipated draft of Austin’s new Land Development Code had been released. Please join CNU-CTX for a presentation by Code Studio’s Lee Einsweiler, and primary author of Imagine Austin Garner Stoll.

Lee will bring his considerable expertise and experience in preparing over 20 form based codes to discuss how the draft code is organized, functions, and attempts to implement Imagine Austin.
Garner will discuss how the code responds to the Code Diagnosis conducted in the first phase of CodeNEXT.

Both will be on hand to answer all your questions about what in the Code will support the Creation of Places People Love.

Lee Einsweiler has been involved in planning, zoning and plan implementation in a variety of settings over the past 30 years. His emphasis has been on redevelopment activity in urban areas, beginning in the 1980’s and continuing with his recent work in Fort Worth’s Stockyards, Asheville’s River Arts District, and the entire City of Los Angeles.

Lee sharpened his skills in the preparation of zoning and subdivision regulations across the country, and has been personally responsible for over 50 code projects, including the complete revision and adoption of over 30 codes and the preparation of over 20 form-based codes. His combination of conventional zoning know-how and new code approaches are rare in the profession, and his ability to facilitate the consideration and adoption of new zoning serves his clients well.

Lee previously served as an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Community & Regional Planning at the University of Texas. He is a past board member of the CNU-CTX, where he chaired the Policy Committee. Lee is a frequent speaker at state and national conferences on the issue of zoning and form-based codes.

Garner Stoll has extensive experience as a city planner in “town‐gown” communities. He has managed planning programs in the university communities of Lawrence, Kansas; Lincoln, Nebraska; Boulder, Colorado; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Austin, Texas. Over his 40‐year career, he played a key role in efforts to rethink the functions and procedures of planning departments and improve customer service. One of his biggest accomplishments was managing the preparation of the “Imagine Austin” comprehensive plan for Austin, Texas which has received numerous state and national awards.

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CNU-CTX Holiday Happy Hour
Dec
14
5:30 PM17:30

CNU-CTX Holiday Happy Hour

Please join CNU-CTX and allied groups and friends for a lively Holiday Happy Hour Party at Delicious. Come for conviviality, nibbles, and Cards Against Urbanity - cash bar. 

Season of Sharing:  New urbanists helping new urbanites

CNU-CTX will collect cash donation to buy needed basic household supplies for the new urban dwellers at Bluebonnet Studios.  

Foundation Communities just opened these apartments at 2301 S. Lamar Blvd. Help CNU-CTX welcome the new residents - about 100 single adults, who include formerly homeless veterans, low-wage workers, seniors, and individuals with disabilities who haven’t had their own home.

We’ll have a display showing cleaning and personal care supplies the new residents will need which will be purchased with the help of your donations.

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CNU-CTX Annual Luncheon - Central Texas Corridors:  The Way Forward
Dec
7
11:30 AM11:30

CNU-CTX Annual Luncheon - Central Texas Corridors: The Way Forward

What are the best ways to keep our region moving as it grows?
Central Texas urban corridors are building blocks of a sustainable mobility network and the front lines of the struggle to integrate transportation and land use. Join CNU-CTX and national transportation thought leader Jeffrey Tumlin for a timely exploration of the region’s past and future and the potential for invigorating our streets and neighborhoods.


Jeffrey Tumlin is director of strategy at Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates, a San Francisco-based transportation planning and engineering firm that focuses on sustainable mobility. For more than twenty years,he has led station area, downtown, citywide, and campus plans, and delivered lectures and classes in 20 U.S. states and five other countries. His projects have won awards from the U.S. General Services Administration, Institute of Transportation Engineers, American Planning Association, American Society of Landscape Architects, Congress for the New Urbanism, and Urban Land Institute. He is the author of Sustainable Transportation:  Tools for Creating Healthy, Vibrant and Resilient Communities.

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New Urbanism Film Festival - San Antonio
Nov
16
6:30 PM18:30

New Urbanism Film Festival - San Antonio

Join us for the first San Antonio screening of the New Urbanism Film Festival (NUFF)! Grab a beer, mingle with fellow urbanists and enjoy a collection of films on the topic of the built environment.

City-lovers of all backgrounds are invited! Anyone who works to redesign a street, strengthen ties in a neighborhood, develop new housing, or preserve a historic landmark is putting New Urbanism into action—regardless of their affiliation or background.

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Nov
16
3:30 PM15:30

Code Advisory Group launches working groups focused on affordability, compatibility, small business

The CodeNEXT Code Advisory Group will initiate a series of working groups to dig deeper into concepts directly linked to the land development code revision. The topics are household affordability, “missing middle” housing, and the small business experience.

The individual working groups will begin meeting on Jan. 20, according to the tentative schedule below.  All meetings will be held in One Texas Center, 505 Barton Springs Road, Room 325.

Code Issues for Affordability
Jan. 20, 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Feb. 2, 3:30 pm – 5 pm
Feb. 13, 3 pm – 5 pm
Feb. 23, 3 pm – 5 pm
Mar. 3, 3:30 pm – 5 pm

Infill, compatibility, and missing middle housing
Jan. 22, 3:30 pm – 5 pm
Feb 6, 3 pm – 5 pm
Feb. 17, 4 pm – 5:30 pm
Feb. 26, 3 pm – 5 pm
Mar. 6, 3 pm – 5 pm
 
Obstacles for small business
Jan. 26, 10 am – 12 pm
Feb. 9, 3 pm – 5 pm
Feb. 20, 3 pm – 5 pm
Mar. 2, 3:30 pm – 5 pm
Mar. 9, 4 pm –  5 pm

Keep up to date at the CodeNEXT website.

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CNU-CTX Walking Tour: Domain Northside/Rock Rose Street
Nov
11
3:00 PM15:00

CNU-CTX Walking Tour: Domain Northside/Rock Rose Street

Join CNU-CTX on Friday, November 11th for our Autumn walking tour of the Domain.  The walk will focus on the newly opened Domain Northside and Rock Rose Entertainment District, but we’ll also revisit the original Century Oaks section to consider the Public Private Partnership that served as a catalyst for the whole development.

Love it or hate it, the Domain is one of the largest and most mixed-use walkable urban centers in Austin, and one of the largest and most successful lifestyle centers in the country. There are plenty of valuable lessons to explore about using walkable urbanism to build value in real estate investments, and creating a real sense of place beyond the standard shopping mall.

The walk will begin at the Northside Lawn at the corner of Rock Rose and Palm Way. We’ll gather at 3:00 p.m.and leisurely tour the development until 5:00 p.m. After the walk, please join us for a happy hour on Rock Rose for conversation, analysis, debate and merriment.

Northside Lawn is about one mile or 20 minute walk from the MetroRail Kramer Station, and about 0.3 mile or 6 minute walk from MetroRapid 803 Domain Station. There is also plenty of free parking located in two garages located between Domain Drive and Rock Rose.

Tickets are free to CNU-CTX Members.  Non CNU Members are asked to pay $10.00 for our event.  To become a member and avoid the charge is easy - register at CNU - memberships start at $40.00 per year: https://www.cnu.org/get-involved/become-member

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CNU-CTX Co-Hosts Charles Marohn Happy Hour with ATX Urbanists and Strong Towns Central Texas
Oct
26
5:30 PM17:30

CNU-CTX Co-Hosts Charles Marohn Happy Hour with ATX Urbanists and Strong Towns Central Texas

Charles Marohn is in town to talk about to talk about The Hidden Costs of Suburban Sprawl at City Hall.  We encourage everyone to see that and then come join Chuck and us afterwords for a Congress for the New Urbanism Central Texas Chapter, #atxurbanists, and Strong Towns Central- Texas co-hosted Happy Hour Pour House Pub.

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CityMatters 20x20
Sep
29
5:30 PM17:30

CityMatters 20x20

Please join us on Thursday, September 29th at TenOAK for CityMatters 20x20 as we invite four UT professors to tell us about their reasearch relating to our region and new urbanism.  

Our speakers will be: 

Gabriel Diaz Montemayor, CNU-CTX Board Member and Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the School of Architecture

Patricia Wilson, Professor,  Community and Regional Planning Program 

Robert Young, Assistant Profsessor, Community and Regional Planning Program

Elizabeth Mueller, Associate Professor, Community and Regional Planning Program

At CityMatters 20x20 we invite four speakers to deliver a rapid and dynamic presentation – 20 slides for 20 seconds each – all related to a single theme. The audience is encouraged to comment and ask questions.

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ATX Screening of NUFF
Aug
23
7:00 PM19:00

ATX Screening of NUFF

Don't let the dog days of summer get between you and your new urbanism fix.  Beat the heat and join us second annual screening of selected films from the New Urbanism Film Festival (NUFF) at the fabulously air-conditioned Alamo Drafthouse, South Lamar sponsored by Capital Metro.

The NUFF is provocative evening of sometimes funny, sometimes moving, and always thought provoking films about urban design, transportation, affordability and pressures brought by rapid change in cities and neighborhoods.

Tickets NOW available!

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CNU 24 - After Party
Jul
1
6:00 PM18:00

CNU 24 - After Party

 

Over 50 Central Texans descended on Detroit for CNU24 and came back brimming with inspiration to use in our work to make the places people love in Central Texas.  

Whether you have come back so-inspired, want to hear from others who were, or would like to learn more about the fascinating City of Detroit and the presentations at CNU24, please join us for a pot-luck social this Friday.  

Bring a dish or a beverage to share!

Do you have pictures or and idea from CNU24 that you would like to share?  Please email: kgregor@prismnet.com

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